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Announcer: LOCAL 4 NEWS
BEGINS RIGHT NOW WITH A
"BREAKING NEWS ALERT."
Carmen: BREAKING NEWS:
MICHIGAN'S ATTORNEY GENERAL
FILES THE FIRST CRIMINAL CHARGES
IN THE FLINT WATER CRISIS.
THEY FAILED.
THEY FAILED IN THEIR
RESPONSIBILITIES TO PROTECT THE
HEALTH AND SAFETY OF FAMILIES OF
FLINT.
Carmen: AND NOW THIS CRISIS
MOVES FROM THE COURT OF OPINION
TO THE COURT OF LAW TO FIND OUT
WHAT WENT SO WRONG.
Devin: AND HERE ARE THE FACES
OF TWO OF THE THREE MEN CHARGED
BEING ARRAIGNED IN A FLINT
COURTROOM A SHORT TIME AGO AND
FACES CHARGES FROM EVIDENCE
TAMPERING TO CONSPIRACY.
IT TOPS LOCAL 4 NEWS AT 5:00.
MICHIGAN'S ATTORNEY GENERAL BILL
SCHUETTE PROMISED ACTION WHEN HE
ANNOUNCED HIS INVESTIGATION INTO
THE FLINT WATER CRISIS AND TODAY
DELIVERED THE FIRST ROUND.
Carmen: THE CHARGES AGAINST
MDEQ WORKERS MIKE PRYSBY AND
STEPHEN BUSCH AND FLINT EMPLOYEE
MICHAEL GLASGOW.
KEVIN DIETZ WAS THE FIRST TO
REPORT THE CHARGES WERE COMING.
GIVE US BACKGROUND ON THESE
THREE, KEVIN.
Kevin: THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
BROUGHT THE HAMMER DOWN TODAY!
HE ISSUED CHARGES THAT COULD
SEND THESE THREE MEN, TWO OF
THEM STATE WORKERS, ONE A CITY
WORKER, TO PRISON FOR SEVERAL
YEARS FOR PUTTING AN ENTIRE CITY
AT RISK.
MR. BUSCH, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING
TO SAY TO THE CITIZENS OF FLINT?
DID YOU TAMPER WITH EVIDENCE?
WE PLED NOT GUILTY TO ALL OF
THE COUNTS.
Kevin: MICHAEL GLASGOW, MIKE
PRYSBY AND STEPHEN BUSCH THE
FIRST TO BE HIT WITH THE
CHARGES.
IT'S NOT RIGGED.
NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW, NOT ON
MY WATCH.
Kevin: PRYSBY AND BUSCH WORK
FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY.
PROSECUTORS SAY THEY PUT FLINT
FAMILIES IN HARM'S WAY BY LYING
ABOUT CORROSION CONTROL AND THE
LEAD TESTING IN FLINT.
TOUGH SITUATION, AND I'M SURE
THE FACTS AS YOU ALREADY TALKED
ABOUT WITH REGARDS TO
MR. GLASGOW, BUT WHEN YOU DID AN
OVERT ACT AND HAD THE CORRUPT
MIND TO DO THAT ACT, YOU'LL BE
CHARGED.
Kevin: GLASGOW IS CHARGED
WITH TAMPERING WITH EVIDENCE AND
MADE LEAD LEVELS APPEAR LOWER.
HIS BOSS IS OUTRAGED!
IT'S ALWAYS A MIXED REACTION
WHEN YOU FIND OUT IT'S ONE OF
YOUR EMPLOYEES.
IT'S SOMETHING WE'VE BEEN
WAITING FOR, THE CITIZENS HAVE
BEEN WAITING FOR.
Kevin: HE COULD SPEND FIVE
YEARS IN PRISON IF PRYSBY IS
CONVICTED AND GLASGOW FOUR
YEARS.
IT HURTS WHEN I HAVE FRIENDS,
PERSONAL CLOSE FRIENDS,
LIVE HERE.
THEY WONDER IF THERE'S ANY TRUTH
IN THIS INVESTIGATION.
I HOPE I GAVE THEM SOME.
Kevin: THE SEASONED
INVESTIGATOR BROUGHT TO TEARS AS
HE ASSURES FLINT RESIDENTS THAT
THIS INVESTIGATION BEING RUN BY
A REPUBLICAN ATTORNEY GENERAL IS
LEGIT AND THAT GOING FORWARD,
THEY WILL LOOK AT EVERYONE,
EVERYONE, INCLUDING REPUBLICAN
GOVERNOR RICK SNYDER.
KEVIN DIETZ, "DEFENDERS."
Carmen: DO THE NOT GUILTY
PLEAS TODAY MEAN THERE WILL BE
TRIALS OR IS THE AG WILLING TO
CUT DEALS?
Kevin: THESE ARE NOT SEASONED
CRIMINALS, THEY'RE CITY AND
STATE EMPLOYEES.
IF THEY CAN CUT A DEAL, THEY'LL